Far from training up more of our own nurses as the complacent Brexiters like to fantasise, the Tory government has exacerbated the NHS recruitment crisis by driving huge numbers of potential nurses away from the profession by scrapping their financial support.

Tory Brexiters like Boris Johnson, Liam Fox, Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith lied through their teeth that Brexit would be good for the NHS, but now their party is gleefully hammering nails into the NHS coffin.

Rather than being furious that they were lied to huge numbers of Brexiters are still actually making excuses for the Brexiteers' NHS lies and flat out reversing reality by claiming that we could make up the Brexit nursing shortfall by training more UK nurses when the evidence says that the exact opposite is the case.

That's the problem with political tribalists, once they've made a decision they'll continue vociferously defending it no matter how much they have to defend outright dishonesty, reverse reality, and perform demeaning acts of mental contortionism to do it, because it's always very much easier to fool a person than to convince them that they've been fooled.

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